Archive - Nov 23, 2010
The Buckyballs Contest
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 14:24I don’t normally do promotions, contests, paid content or stuff like that, but recently I’ve received a few emails from the folks promoting Buckyballs and they are exactly the sort of product that I would be interested in promoting.
So, here’s the deal. Promote my online presence, my blog, my twitter account, this blog post, stuff like that, and tell me about it in the comments. The more you promote, the more chances you have to win. I will select three winners who will receive their own Buckyballs. Winners will need to provide me with a mailing address in the United States where the Buckyballs can be shipped. For more details, check below the fold.
Writing for the Bethwood Patch
Submitted by Aldon Hynes on Tue, 11/23/2010 - 09:43Yesterday, I started freelance writing for the Bethwood Patch. I have a column that I will attempt to update twice a day with articles about what is happening around Bethany and Woodbridge. I will need to see how this fits with my other work, writing at this blog and the future of The Woodbridge Citizen.
Especially important to me is how it affects the quality of my writing. Will I be able to pump out two articles a day of writing I can be proud of, of writing that properly honors the towns of Woodbridge and Bethany, or writing that inspires people to become more involved in their local communities? We’ll see.
What will it do to my writing here? The stuff I write about Woodbridge and Bethany is likely to appear only in the Bethwood Patch, so I’ll probably be focusing a little less on local issues and more on other topics here.
Patch is an interesting venture. Can AOL revive itself and local journalism through The Patch? What will Patch do for journalists coming out of J School? Will there be more jobs, or will some of these jobs go to people who haven’t been to J School? Will reporters for Patch cover the local news stories that haven’t gotten enough coverage in recent years, such as board of education meetings, with a local touch in a way that makes them more engaging to local readers and frees up well trained investigative reporters to pursue more challenging stories? We’ll see.
Meanwhile, be sure to check out my column About The Towns at the Bethwood Patch. Share your comments about the columns there and any meta discussion here. And, if you have any tips about things in Bethany and Woodbridge that I should cover, let me know.
